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OK you have probably heard this saying a million
times, but today I am going to show you
how to greatly improve your life just by utilizing
the power of this saying.

The saying “out of sight, out of mind” is very true.
When something is out of sight, you will often
forget about it.

When it comes to adding
new positive habits to your life
you want to always remember the things that can
contribute to your positive habits.

Here is an example.

I work out in a gym 3 times a week.

I know that if I add protein to my diet
I can increase lean muscle which will
help me stay fit,and in shape.

Here is the power of “Out of Sight, Out of Mind.”

I bought a powder protein supplement with the intention
that every morning I would drink a protein
shake during breakfast.

I put the container of protein on my kitchen
counter.

Every morning for a week I made a protein drink
during breakfast.

Two weeks into this new habit of drinking protein
drinks in the morning I realized that I had not had
a protein drink in over 5 days.

What happened?

My daughter moved the protein powder from the
counter top to the kitchen floor next to
the cat food!

It was out of sight and you can already guess
what is coming next….it was “out of mind.”

It was only inches away from where it had been,
but it was no longer in my field of view each
morning when I made my breakfast!

It stopped my new positive habit like a
red light stops traffic.

How can this help you have a
successful life?

Lets say that you just found out that the supplement
“selenium” can help reduce your risk for getting cancer
and you bought a bottle of it.

If you place the bottle on the top shelf of your
refrigerator next to the orange juice that
you usually have every morning you will
end up taking it every day.

Guess what happens if you move that
bottle of selenium to the 2nd shelf
just 3 inches down from the top
shelf.

It will get pushed to the back in a
couple days and out of sight….
your new habit will disappear.

Amazing right!

But true….very true.

This strategy can be applied to almost
any aspect of your life that you want to make better.

Example;

You decide to carry a yellow notepad
around with you every day to keep a to-do
list. If you make it a habit to keep
it next to your car keys,you will always
be reminded to bring it with you.

Get the picture?

You will be amazed at how many things you forget
to do on a regular basis simply because
the object that triggers an action on your
part is nowhere in sight!

Like Reactive thinking, Managerial thinking is an essential skill. Without it, our lives are in constant crisis because we’re are “out of control.” But also like Reactive thinking, it lacks perspective. Managerial thinkers may “climb the ladder of success only to find, when they get to the top, that it was leaning against the wrong building.” Or as Peter Drucker said, there is nothing more foolish than doing with great efficiency that which need not be done at all. Both Reactive and Managerial thinking are essential, but like any tool they must be used skillfully, and in the right situations.”

Quoted from Coach Phillip Humbert

OK, I often need some tune-up here. People who are very organized add a lot to the smooth operations and often IMPROVED operations of a business. My manager at work excels at this. HE also knows how to think long term and provide excellent suggestions about how to achieve our goals. As with the 2 prevous blogs, cultivating your skills can expanding the number of lens you can work from immensely help you approach many work-related situations. Moms have to this all the time to keep communications with family and kids, and household operations functioning. Ever need more help? Go talk to a group of Moms. ANd of course coach Phil is here to help too. Feel free to copy and share. Please give credit here and include my url. Thank you.
Quotes of the Week

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
– Louise Hay

The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
– Peter Drucker

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put foundations under them.
– Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to be what we might have been.
– George Eliot

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5. Strictly Business: Study Your Data FROM COACH PHIL HUMBERT visit his site for more information.

I’m often called in to consult or coach with business leaders who are confused, even terrified by what they perceive to be a terrible business situation. Maybe sales are down even though they’ve added more sales people. Perhaps production costs are up and profits are plummeting. Sometimes key people are leaving, and they don’t know why.

Granted, sometimes the answers are hard to find and we have work to do, but often the answers are readily available. Often the answers are sitting right on their desk in the form of numbers they haven’t bothered to analyze.

Every business has a small number of critical “measurables.” For a therapist, these include the number of clients, the average length of treatment, and the number of new referrals per month. With just those three numbers, you can pretty well predict the future of any clinical practice. Obviously, the cost of rent, staffing and many other numbers are also helpful, but those three tell you most of what you need to know.

In other businesses, the variables will be different, but they ALL need to be studied.

I once worked with a large, regional landscaping company. For them, the key variable was the ratio of total revenue divided by total payroll. That single number said volumes about the over-all health of the company.

Whatever your key variables, study them! Too often managers and CEO’s get so caught up in planning for the future and putting out daily “fires” that they forget to crunch the numbers. I believe in numbers! Study them. You can learn a lot from a few key numbers, and make adjustments accordingly.

“Strategic thinking is the third style and it focuses on ultimate purposes and long-term objectives. It focuses on the horizon, it looks for meaning and purpose and true “success.” Strategic thinking helps the Reactive thinker separate the brief and unexpected opportunities from the distracting disasters.” Coach Phil Humbert
“Many people have observed that our society suffers from a lack of Strategic, long-term thinking. Too many managers and CEO’s focus only on next quarter’s profit, at any price. Too many of us focus on “getting through the day” (Reactive) or getting the next promotion (Managerial), without asking the Strategic question, “Why?”

Strategic thinking requires time and space, and it’s hard work. Few of us enjoy asking the “big questions” of what we believe, where we are going, and what we are doing with our lives. Strategic thinking requires time to be pensive, take notes, to ponder and reflect. For most of us, Strategic thinking is an acquired skill, and many of us shy away from it.” COach Phil Humbert

Just like me to go out of order. Get his weekly tips newsletter for a more in-depth study and opportunity for learning about success.

Too many of us never have learned about different types of thinking. Make a few notes about how you think, and how you get things done. Your present techniques are your foundation and create one lens or perspective. Then consider ways that you admire how others think and aprroach similar situations. Are there skills or approaches that they use that may help you? Adopt or try some on for fun.

One manager used to say docuement you ideas Mary, and with certain facts developed I was able to get almost everything (projects) I wanted completed. I managed to get promoted, create another job position for someone else that helped 3 departments work better, get the(my) office computerized and when working on a major construction project for the college had many useful features added which cost more! Everyone won. One idea that helped many. Try some of this (the exercises above) in your life.
Mary MacIntyre

Carrie Wilkerson
The Barefoot ExecutiveTM has a terrific newsletter, and you can find her on Twitter, the barefefoot executive. Here’s the feature from her most recent newsletter by eth Schneider.
10 Ways to Increase Your Super Powers

A few years ago I began working with a business coach who had us do an exercise that helped us identify what our top values. Freedom was definitely one of the things at the top of my list. Because of that I have spent a lot of time and energy building a business that supports my need for freedom. Brian Tracy defines success as, “the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.” So essentially doing what you want, when you want, with people you really like to hang out with. Sounds like freedom to me! If you are like me and crave freedom, here are 10 things you can do in your own business.

1. Create blocks of time. Think of your business as a book. Make a list of all the main “chapters” then lay out time in your calendar for those chapters so you know when to work on each piece of your business. Once you are done, it’s time to play.

2. Let someone else manage your calendar. Set up an online calendar so that someone on your team can set and manage your appointments.

3. Empower your team to make decisions without you. Free yourself from questions by setting policies around things like product returns or customer service issues. When a customer calls in with a question your team will handle it without having to bring it to you.

4. Clone yourself. Spend the time to document how you do things so you can scale your company. For example, instead of doing all the one- on-one client consulting myself, I have trained consultants and they handle it.

5. Write out a new client set-up process. When the excitement of a new client is all around you it’s easy to skip or miss steps that you intended to do, but just never got to. Create a series of steps that all new clients go through so you are not reinventing the wheel over and over again.

6. Schedule a recurring meeting with your assistant. Meet on a regular basis to discuss projects, give assignments and check progress. When communication is strong between you and the people helping you, things happen faster.

7. Learn how to use the technology you already own. Take a look at some the programs you use on a regular basis like Outlook, ACT!, Camtasia, etc. Explore and learn some of the intermediate to advanced features. You’ll be shocked at how much time you can save when you stop fearing your software and start embracing it.

8. Actually use the systems you create. This is my favorite. Don’t write a system and stick it in the drawer. Share it with your team, tape it to your wall, assign it to someone. Implement, implement, implement. Did I say implement?

9. Checklists are your friend. When you are handling a task that is only done occasionally or you want to delegate it to someone else, jot down a list of all the steps. With a list of steps and actions to complete it’s easy to make sure nothing is skipped.

10. Plan out your projects. Be proactive by laying out all the steps of your project so you have a handle on everything. One of my clients, Christine did this. Instead of stressing out and handling everything for her big product launch last minute, she laid out all the systems and instead went on a week long family vacation.

Now that’s freedom. Go ahead, you can do it. Pick one of these and implement it into your own business today.

© 2009 Beth Schneider, Process Prodigy, Inc.

Beth Schneider, President of Process Prodigy Inc., http://tinyurl.com/10WaysbyBeth, along with her team of highly sought after operations consultants, reveal the insider secrets billion-dollar corporations pay thousands of dollars for. Specializing in process creation, Process Prodigy tools and techniques have helped entrepreneurs increase productivity by as much as 600%, and revenues by as much as 250%. Visit http://tinyurl.com/10WaysbyBeth and grab your FREE systems starter kit valued at $297.00

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It’s summer and for the next 2 weeks I am housesitting, gardening, and even working some extra hours at work. I could choose to be stressed, however this time I am choosing to REDUCE my stress. The operative word is CHOOSE. I normally do not remain centered enough to even think about my choices. Just becoming more clear about what I am “willing” to do helps reduce stress dramactically.

In addition, I will go slower on some things, and I am taking time to really enjoy my food! Yesterday I received some great food from two different gardens. While visiting one friend I saw a coyote run away from the yard. It moved very fast, and although my friend doesn’t want to encourage it, I still appreciated its beauty and grace. Food fresh from the garden does taste so much better! Readon for the recipe link.

Hi Mary -

This is a to-the-minute health update from Kevin Gianni and Renegade Health. Please read on…

Delicious Chocolate Dream Raw Smoothie Recipe - The Renegade Health Show Episode #349 - 2009-07-10 19:00:38-04
Annmarie disappeared for about 15 min today and reappeared with our video camera…
I asked her what she did for the show, and she wouldn’t tell me.
Obviously, while I was editing it, I found out that she made a delicious chocolate raw smoothie for Rebecca’s kids!
Here it is, take a look…

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If you can’t click on the post above please visit this page directly:

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Enjoy!

Live Awesome!
Kevin Gianni

PS. If you are interested in getting results with your health, I’d suggest a system. Systems can make even the most difficult tasks easy. I’ve put together my own system for results and I’d love to hear what you think about it! Find out more here!

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So this is the most exciting crop. Well I’ll cover a few obvious points, and then ramble some.
1) Brainstorm.
2) Dream
3) Write like crazy. Just let words hit the page and bounce. Reread later.
Ramble: This is the fun part. If you are going to start a projects list fast 10-30 goals. What do want this project to do for you?
Commercial: I had an appointment with my friend and doctor yesterday and we both showed up early, and we expected to find a room at the center, but they were all full. So I suggested that we go walk in the labryinth. I’m no expert however, these are suppose to be mindful walks, often done in silence, and usually I am awakened to beauty, peace, and new thoughts there.

How? I slow down, go into my self, and breathe, and go out into the world and watch, and try not to trip on the wooden stakes as guides.
Yesterday we talked, I nearly tripped, and proceeded. I mostly listened to what the DOM friend was talking about. I absorbed the cool air and joy, we were walking. I did a silent prayer when we came to the buddha. I don’t pray to the buddha, I just do my own prayer. I gave thanks and we returned back through the spiral. At the beginning/end place stopped, and did a silent intention for my friend from what he had said. I had no idea what would happen in our walk.

Back to thinking. Let your heart speak. Step aside for the brain to generate possibilities. Listen. Find ways to open yourself beyond your immediate assumptions. Make notes for future sessions.
Breathe.
Another friend speaks about becoming aaware of the lens you look through. Then she suggests picking another lens to see the situation from another viewpoint. IDentify the aspects of that lens. Make notes. Each lens will be good to recall later. Have fun.